In the spring of 2008, the Indiana legislature passed a bill which stated that every school corporation in Indiana had to have a plan in place by the start of the 2008 school year for their High Ability, or HA, students (formerly called Gifted and Talented, or G/T). Edinburgh already had a Task Force in place, and they began to meet regularly to start implementation of this legislature. Each building was given the autonomy to form their own plan to best serve their student population. Please click on the following link to read the details of our corporation's plan.
I obtained my High Ability endorsement to my teaching license from Indiana University in 2009.
Is my child a high ability student? What are the common characteristics?
Children capable of high performance include those with demonstrated achievement and/or potential in any of the following areas:
1. general intellectual ability
2. specific academic aptitude
3. creative or productive thinking
4. leadership ability
5. visual and performing arts
Gifted behavior reflects an interaction among three basic clusters of human traits - these clusters being above average (but not necessarily high) general and/or specific ability, high levels of task commitment (motivation), and high levels of creativity. Gifted and talented children are those possessing or capable of developing this composite set of traits and applying them to any potentially valuable area of human performance.